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MUNICIPAL LEAGUE OF SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY
A NON-PARTISAN, FORCE OF 5000 CONSTRUCTIVE CITIZENS
WORKING WITH YOU FOR A BETTER LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Vol. LV, No. 2
Monday, January 25, 1965
25c per Copy Page 9
City Officials See Threats to Water Sheds
Supt. Heath Cites Three Threats to Tolt and Cedar
River Water Supplies Which May Compel Council
To Spend $15 Million for Purification
Is the admission of a few thousand hunters, fishermen, campers
and picnickers into the two
Seattle watersheds, worth the risk
of compelling the City Water Department to spend about $15 million in order to provide full treatment of our city water with resulting higher water rates?
Posed Three Threats
This was the question put to 21
members of the League's Utiities and
Services Committee on Jan. 15, by City
Water Superintendent Ray Heath and
Assistant Supt. Jerry Allen. They
listed the following threatening possibilities for the impairing of our water
supply bearing in mind that the public
is now excluded from our two watersheds :
1. The U. S. Forest Service is
making plans to do some logging in its
tract in the Tolt Watershed with a new
access road which will admit visitors
and enable them to make use of the
recreational facilities of the area. Heath
fears a similar opening of the federal
tract in the Cedar River Watershed.
2. A bill is likely to be introduced
in this legislative session opening public watersheds of more than 200 acres
for recreational purposes. Such a
measure has been presented in recent
legislative sessions but has been defeated because of the opposition of
public health and water groups.
3. Court proceedings initiated by
the King County Commissioners requiring the Cities of Seattle and Ta-
coma to provide a county road right-
of-way through portions of their watersheds in King County, if successful,
will permit the access of an unlimited
(Continued on Next Page)
What Kind of Stories Do League News Readers Prefer?
Our aim is to make the MU- sions in committee meetings so that
NICIPAL NEWS so interesting these interesting proceedings can be
that many members who are not s are y mem
active in committee work feel (2) Stories about timely Public
.. , ,i • _. , ,Uf „m problems such as next year's tax levies
they get their money s worth from v ,, , , /
, J° . , , «_.,„, , and budgets; year-end financial reports
the 22 issues of the NEWS alone. of the City> £ounty> School and Port
The MUNICIPAL NEWS is the District, reports of the City Planning
only local publication solely devoted Commission etc
to reporting happenings at the City ,„N _ , , .
tt ii V. S. o i- i rv * • * a (3) Letters of commendation or
Hall, Courthouse, School District, and . . . .
_ „ „ criticism from league members
Port of Seattle. B
So, the faithful reader of the NEWS (4) Signed articles by members dis-
is unusually well informed about public cussing and interpreting certain as-
affairs. pects of civic problems with which they
But we wish to make it as entertain- are familiar
taining and enlightening as possible. (5) stories about successful prac-
Here are the different kinds of tjces in other cities
stories. Please check your likes in ,_ _. , ., ... ,,
. r . J , ,,,. (6) Orchids and Needles
order of preference, tor example (1)
or (2). If you rate several types of (7) Edltorials
stories the same, note the same num- (8) Vignettes of civic history in
bers. Also write in comments if you tr>is and other times
wish. (9) Any other types of stories
Let's have a sufficient number of re- which you prefer
turns to give us representative opinions Name and Address
about each type of story.
Here they are: Please clip and return to 725 Cen-
(1) Stories of speeches and discus- tral Building, Seattle, Wash.

MUNICIPAL LEAGUE OF SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY
A NON-PARTISAN, FORCE OF 5000 CONSTRUCTIVE CITIZENS
WORKING WITH YOU FOR A BETTER LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Vol. LV, No. 2
Monday, January 25, 1965
25c per Copy Page 9
City Officials See Threats to Water Sheds
Supt. Heath Cites Three Threats to Tolt and Cedar
River Water Supplies Which May Compel Council
To Spend $15 Million for Purification
Is the admission of a few thousand hunters, fishermen, campers
and picnickers into the two
Seattle watersheds, worth the risk
of compelling the City Water Department to spend about $15 million in order to provide full treatment of our city water with resulting higher water rates?
Posed Three Threats
This was the question put to 21
members of the League's Utiities and
Services Committee on Jan. 15, by City
Water Superintendent Ray Heath and
Assistant Supt. Jerry Allen. They
listed the following threatening possibilities for the impairing of our water
supply bearing in mind that the public
is now excluded from our two watersheds :
1. The U. S. Forest Service is
making plans to do some logging in its
tract in the Tolt Watershed with a new
access road which will admit visitors
and enable them to make use of the
recreational facilities of the area. Heath
fears a similar opening of the federal
tract in the Cedar River Watershed.
2. A bill is likely to be introduced
in this legislative session opening public watersheds of more than 200 acres
for recreational purposes. Such a
measure has been presented in recent
legislative sessions but has been defeated because of the opposition of
public health and water groups.
3. Court proceedings initiated by
the King County Commissioners requiring the Cities of Seattle and Ta-
coma to provide a county road right-
of-way through portions of their watersheds in King County, if successful,
will permit the access of an unlimited
(Continued on Next Page)
What Kind of Stories Do League News Readers Prefer?
Our aim is to make the MU- sions in committee meetings so that
NICIPAL NEWS so interesting these interesting proceedings can be
that many members who are not s are y mem
active in committee work feel (2) Stories about timely Public
.. , ,i • _. , ,Uf „m problems such as next year's tax levies
they get their money s worth from v ,, , , /
, J° . , , «_.,„, , and budgets; year-end financial reports
the 22 issues of the NEWS alone. of the City> £ounty> School and Port
The MUNICIPAL NEWS is the District, reports of the City Planning
only local publication solely devoted Commission etc
to reporting happenings at the City ,„N _ , , .
tt ii V. S. o i- i rv * • * a (3) Letters of commendation or
Hall, Courthouse, School District, and . . . .
_ „ „ criticism from league members
Port of Seattle. B
So, the faithful reader of the NEWS (4) Signed articles by members dis-
is unusually well informed about public cussing and interpreting certain as-
affairs. pects of civic problems with which they
But we wish to make it as entertain- are familiar
taining and enlightening as possible. (5) stories about successful prac-
Here are the different kinds of tjces in other cities
stories. Please check your likes in ,_ _. , ., ... ,,
. r . J , ,,,. (6) Orchids and Needles
order of preference, tor example (1)
or (2). If you rate several types of (7) Edltorials
stories the same, note the same num- (8) Vignettes of civic history in
bers. Also write in comments if you tr>is and other times
wish. (9) Any other types of stories
Let's have a sufficient number of re- which you prefer
turns to give us representative opinions Name and Address
about each type of story.
Here they are: Please clip and return to 725 Cen-
(1) Stories of speeches and discus- tral Building, Seattle, Wash.